Alexi Charovas is an artist-printmaker, photographer and educator based in London. Born in rural Greece, he first studied Biomedical Technology Engineering in Athens before turning to photography, and that scientific grounding still shapes his experimental, process-driven approach to materials and images. His photographic work spans art, fashion, and editorial commissions. Drawing on his own experience and his practice as a maker, his practice-led PhD examines how national symbols, such as the Greek Evzone military costume, construct and police national belonging and gender identity. The research asks how dress, image, and ritual shape public feeling, and how symbols that present themselves as timeless are produced, repeated, and maintained. His multidisciplinary approach brings together garment-making, performance for camera and photographic and print processes, including silkscreen, cyanotype and risograph. In this work, making is a form of critical inquiry: by remaking and inhabiting the costume, and letting processes misfire, he tests where national ideals hold and where they come apart. Alexi holds a BA in Photography from the University of Westminster and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and teaches photography at Westminster.